Unlike many people think - or may believe to remember - , childhood is not always a picturesque time in our lives. For some people who can remember, childhood means a memory of dark loneliness and painful living. Classmates can be malicious, teachers can be cruel, and parents can be unobservant. However, stories told by those people can give meaning and an optimistic ending for those who listen. Roald Dahl is one example. His unhappy experiences of the school inspired to writ

Many people think of childhood as an idyllic time of your life, but actually being a child is not easy and sometimes very frustrating. Authors like Roald Dahl, Maurice Sendak, and Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) made clear in their stories that this is a rather wrong assumption showing how much struggle an impotent child can suffer amongst their fellows and oblivious grown-ups. We all have problems, and as they are personal you shouldn't say that one's is more important than

Jeanette Winterson once wrote what was to her the main difference between writing for children and for adults: "Writing a kids' book was no easier than adult fiction, or less demanding, or simpler to invent. The only difference I could find was that there has to be an inherent optimism - which is not the same thing as a happy ending. Sadness, difficulty, fear, danger, loneliness, sacrifice, none of these are impossible for kids to cope with, but bleak hopelessness, and the cy